· Private foundation
Oeschger Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUYON SAUNDERS RESOURCE CENTER | $100,000 |
| AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KIDS INC | $75,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GUYON SAUNDERS RESOURCE CENTER | $20,991 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $10,833 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER | $10,000 |
| LAURA W BUSH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S | $10,000 |
| EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE | $10,000 |
| ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE | $7,935 |
| HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH | $7,500 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER | $5,500 |
| HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH | $5,000 |
| MISSION 2540 | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ASAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +102%
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +7%
- ESEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- WTWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue -19%
- MBMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.
To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
Welfare of homeless animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Women's Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds MISSION 2540 ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Leaders Readers Network ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOAR Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Mays Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Ware Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Oeschger Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.